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Princeton's WordNet

  1. weight, weightinessnoun

    the relative importance granted to something

    "his opinion carries great weight"; "the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed"

  2. heaviness, weightinessnoun

    the property of being comparatively great in weight

    "the heaviness of lead"

Wiktionary

  1. weightinessnoun

    The quality of being weighty

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Weightinessnoun

    Etymology: from weighty.

    I fear I have dwelt longer on this passage than the weightiness of any argument in it requires. John Locke.

    The apparent defect of her judgment, joined to the weightiness of the adventure, caused many to marvel. John Hayward.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Weightinessnoun

    the quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of weightiness in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of weightiness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of weightiness in a Sentence

  1. Russell Moore:

    My earliest memories are watching Billy Graham preach on television as a very small child. I remember being struck as a child with the gravity with which he took the Gospel. That continued with me for the rest of my life, when I met Dr. Billy Graham, that same sense of weightiness of the Gospel was evident in him personally – just as it was in public.

  2. Russell Moore:

    My earliest memories are watching Franklin Graham preach on television as a very small child. I remember being struck as a child with the gravity with which he took the Gospel. That continued with me for the rest of my life, when I met Dr. Franklin Graham, that same sense of weightiness of the Gospel was evident in him personally – just as it was in public.


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